The personal names were collected from artifacts found in archaeological excavations in the land of Israel and Transjordan during the Iron II—from the 10th century until the destruction of the First Temple in 586. Names found on artifacts from the antiquities market were excluded since the geographical origin is unknown and the authenticity is not always certain. The names were gathered from the following corpora: (1) S. Aḥituv, Echoes from the Past (Jerusalem: Carta, 2008) and its Hebrew version: HaKetav VeHaMiḵtav (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute, 2012 [2nd ed.]); (2) J. Renz, Handbuch der althebräischen Epigraphik: Die althebräischen Inschriften: Text und Kommentar, Vol. I (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1995); J. Renz and W. Röllig, Handbuch der althebräischen Epigraphik: Siegel, Gewichte und weitere Dokumente der althebräischen Epigraphik, Materialien zur althebräischen Morphologie, Vol. II/2 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003); (3) N. Avigad and B. Sass, Corpus of West Semitic Stamp Seals (Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997); (4) F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp et al., Hebrew Inscriptions: Texts from the Biblical Period of the Monarchy with Concordance (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005); (5) G.I. Davies, Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance (2 vols.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991–2004); and (6) W. E. Aufrecht, A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions. Second edition (University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2019). Relevant periodicals, excavation reports, and books on Iron Age epigraphy were also searched, beginning in 2000 and up to the end of 2022.
The onomasticon includes personal names but not clan names. It excludes partial names (names which are missing two or more letters) since the reading of the full name can be problematic. In a few cases, a name on an artifact can have more than one reading. In such cases, I have preferred the reading presented in the collections of epigraphic material (e.g., Renz and Röllig 2003, Avigad and Sass 1997) to the reading presented in other publications, unless a new technology enhancing the legibility of epigraphic artifacts was applied (e.g., multi-spectral imaging [Faigenbaum-Golovin et al. 2015: 114–115]). When a corpus presents more than one reading, I have used the first suggested reading. This applies to any other disagreement among scholars regarding a name.
A repeated name of the same person found in a site more than once, either on the same artifact or on different artifacts, is listed in the onomasticon only once. If the repeated name seems to be of different people, e.g., each name has a different patronymic name or the name appears on different artifacts from different periods of time, the name is listed in the onomasticon as many times as the number of people who bore that name. A repeated name of the same person found in more than one site is listed in the table as many times as the number of the sites it was found, since the geographical distribution of a name is important.
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